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- noun Alternative form of
daddy longlegs
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Examples
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It was especially concerned about miserable summers that were making life difficult for creatures from craneflies or daddy-longlegs to species of butterflies, members of the tit family and bats.
British wildlife benefits from return to 'traditional' seasonal weather 2010
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One of those daddy-longlegs arms came at me and I slipped it, but it just kept unfolding.
Becoming the Natural Randy Couture with Loretta Hunt 2008
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One of those daddy-longlegs arms came at me and I slipped it, but it just kept unfolding.
Becoming the Natural Randy Couture with Loretta Hunt 2008
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One of those daddy-longlegs arms came at me and I slipped it, but it just kept unfolding.
Becoming the Natural Randy Couture with Loretta Hunt 2008
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One of those daddy-longlegs arms came at me and I slipped it, but it just kept unfolding.
Becoming the Natural Randy Couture with Loretta Hunt 2008
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He can watch a ladybug make its way across the driveway for half an hour, happily play with a daddy-longlegs spider until the spider (usually missing at least one long leg by this point) escapes, examine with awe the trail of ants marching up our ash tree.
Archive 2005-10-01 2005
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He can watch a ladybug make its way across the driveway for half an hour, happily play with a daddy-longlegs spider until the spider (usually missing at least one long leg by this point) escapes, examine with awe the trail of ants marching up our ash tree.
A Leaf Rain 2005
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An old reprobate daddy-longlegs, who has never said his prayers
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Lucy jumped if a daddy-longlegs walked within a yard of her, and everyone knew that daddy-longlegs were about as scary as Puff the Magic Dragon.
Second Glance Jodi Picoult 2003
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Groping under the couch with one arm, a complex network of cobwebs is disturbed, sending a family of daddy-longlegs scampering.
ME MYSELF I PIP KARMEL 1971
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